I Eat My Peas With Honey
And tales of derring-do.
Four lines, they can be rhyming
(That's Glow Worms to me and you).
Ending line is as usual.
Rosie - It's next-door's tatty puss. Softers, old bean, this is not a f****** limo
Projoy - If music be the food of love
Software - Then jazz it up I say
goldfinch - But if you like your love life bland
Chalky - It's Musak all the way
Chalky - Alas poor Yorick who I knew
goldfinch - Quite well, but that was then
Radox The Green - Just thinking on him makes me blue
Rosie - In cat lives he's on ten. (Softers) Sorry - inappropriate comment a couple of goes back.
Software - Today I've got a toothache True. [Rosie] No sweat.
Rosie - I'd like to pull it out
goldfinch - But with breath to make a dentist quake
Projoy - I'll close my lips and pout
CdM - I wish I had a dentist's drill reveal
Projoy - ; A bag of shiny gems
Software - A glass of that pink water
Rosie - From which all comfort stems.
goldfinch - I wish my drill could crack a safe
Projoy - I wish this safe would crack
Software - Maybe I'll use TNT
Chalky - Which lacks a rhyming knack
.. is ABAB rhyming pattern obligatory? Have often wondered ..
goldfinch - ABAB has symmetry,
ABCB surprises.
ABAB? ABCB?
Both fine rhythmic devices. reveal
Kim -
I wish my Worms had rhythm
CdM - Instead, I have the blues reveal
Raak - Because I'm stuck at Witham
Projoy - Until my train segues
goldfinch - This verse will be my opus
Rosie - And magnum let it be (Raak) I am sure (i.e. not absolutely sure) it's "Wittum". (Pj) I chortle.
Projoy - A work of such wide scope, as
Raak - Transcends mere you and me. [Rosie} I find now that I cannot remember how I've heard it when "this train will terminate at Witham, from where a rail replacement bus etc.". OTH, "rittum" ...
Bismarck - [Witham] If it's the one in Essex, I used to work there and it was "Wittum" at that time.
[Rhymes] the original glowworm was abcb, and we did do an aabb not long ago. It's doggerel, it probably doesn't matter much.

The A12 up from Chelmsford
Projoy - I've travelled many times.
Projoy - (Being from that part of the world, it is indeed Witt'm. I assumed Raak knew this and so decided to push the "misunderstanding the pronunciation from the spelling" joke a centimetre further.)
Chalky - I'd leave my desk in Elmsford
goldfinch - For another town that rhymes.
Projoy - I wish I were an orange
Raak - Unrhymably aloof
goldfinch - But sharply dressed and full of zest
CdM - In brandy, 80 proof

I wish I were an orange
Unrhymably aloof
And on sale for two shillings, j-
-ust to show that that's the troof

Chalky - It only takes an integer
Raak - You tried to type a fraction
Why not take a stand?
B I P HR